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Test 2 · ★ · Reading a story: characters, plot and setting

★★ Cause and effect: Hansel drops breadcrumbs; birds eat them. What is the effect?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, birds, effect · What happens: drop, eat, be · To what, where: breadcrumbs

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 22 «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: ★★ Cause and effect: Hansel drops breadcrumbs; birds eat them.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 drops	nsubj
2	★	★	CCONJ	_	3 Cause	cc
3	Cause	Cause	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 ★	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 effect	cc
5	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ★	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 drops	punct
7	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 drops	nsubj
8	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	breadcrumbs	breadcrumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drops	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	nsubj
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drops	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eat	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	★ ★ Cause and effect	breadcrumbs					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breadcrumb=Theme
2	eat	present	birds	breadcrumbs = breadcrumb					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is the effect?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the effect						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Hansel gets more bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hansel	hansel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bread	amod
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hansel	infinitive							tree rules
2	get	present		more bread					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus

Option 2

The witch helps them home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 helps	obj
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 helps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	the witch	them = they				home property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The children can't find the way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
8	home	home	ADV	_	5 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	can	the children	the way				home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 4

The birds get sick and fly away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fly	cc
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 get	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the birds					sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	fly away	infinitive	the birds not said here					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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